Public bug reported: Binary package hint: linux-source-2.6.31
There are quite a lot of patches along these lines floating around to fix up the tpm_tis driver to make it play nicely with the (broken?) iTPM TCPA/TPM module that Intel's been shipping for the last few years, and somehow only a few seem to have made it into distros, and none into the mainline kernel. This looks like the most solid work so far. http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2009-07/msg00315.html Seeing as my laptop doesn't have any *other* HRNGs available, and something portable sounds expensive, and TPM 1.2 *requires* iTPM to have a pair of HRNGs available, scary as they are-- it's better than nothing, and probably more secure than "nothing." I'd at least like to get a *chance* to speak to the HRNGs with trousers, feed their output into rngtest or dieharder, and see if they're worth using. And, yeah, I think this merits inclusion in 9.10. I think it's merited inclusion in 9.04, 8.10, and so forth-- but it looks like I'm the first person to file a bug, or at least I can't find any. ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: hrng linux-source rng rng-tools security tcpa tpm -- [Ubuntu: all] tpm_tis driver needs a patch to enable iTPM support on mobile Intel platforms https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/432352 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
